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Farfa Abbey (Abbazia di Farfa) | |||
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The exact date of the foundation of the
Abbey is uncertain, according to legend it was founded in the sixth century by St. Lorenzo
Siro. After a period in which it was abandoned due to the Longobard invasions the
monastery was rebuilt by St. Tommaso of Moriana, around 680 AD, after he had a vision
during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, in which the Virgin Mary appeared to him and
instructed him to find and reconstruct the ruined basilica. The monastery, which followed the Benedictine rule, immediately assumed an ![]() With the crisis in the Benedictine order and the struggle for the Papacy in the twelfth century the Abbey began to decline and eventually fell under the control of the Papal States. From here on it's history follows that of the Vatican and the struggles between powerful Roman families for it's control. In 1477 AD the Orsini family asserted it's growing power in the Sabina by expelling all the monks of Farfa and replacing them with Teutonic monks. In the following centuries the Abbey passed under the control of various Roman nobles such as the Barberini and the Farnese but it never really reacquired the importance and independence it once had. Finally, in 1841 AD its powers were definitively transferred to the diocese of the Sabina. |
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